Literate Ape is a literary digital 'zine and a dumping place for the random musings of a small shrewdness of diverse apes who managed to learn to read and write and use computers.

ABOUT THE APES IN CHARGE

Don Hall — co-editor

Don Hall is a freelance events consultant, founder of Literate Ape and author of four books including Belief is a Sledgehammer, Like a Burning Moth With No Idea How He Caught on Fire, and Strippers, Guns, and the Holocaust Museum.

David Himmel — co-editor

David Himmel is the author of the books A Camp Story and the forthcoming The Last DJ. An award-winning journalist, he is a contributor to POLITICO and is the former editor in chief of Chicago Health magazine.

Dec 31 Literate Ape Year End Review 2018

2018 was an anxious year. The lede for 86 percent of everything written anywhere in the world was some shit Trump said, tweeted or implied. That narcissistic fuck weighed the rest of us down like a sack of liposuctioned fat ready to be made into pink soap and, goddamnit, did we wallow in that like hogs in filth.

Along the journey, we were here. Typing our simian paws off to pleasure you with fiction, cultural critique, poetry and general thoughts. We bashed Trump, of course. And looked into the world of odd pornography. We made fun of people. So, in tribute to what many will look back upon as a year spent eating their emotions in the form of Hot Pockets and brie and drinking from the swill bucket to make the pain go away, here are the top ten reads of Literate Ape from 2018:

On behalf of the Shrewdness of Apes who slave over keyboards to provide you with things to ponder, thank you for reading. For those who choose to reach out and complain, disagree, applaud or otherwise let us know how the writing affects you, thank you for caring enough to speak up. And, from both Himmel and myself, to the crew we have assembled, thank you for writing.

As we head into 2019, Literate Ape will grow. Soon to be based in two cities, with an expanded events lineup, more podcasts, more books, and more apes to type on screens, we hope you continue to stop by and check out the ideas.